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Download full textWinona Y. Diola; Joel B. Jalon Jr.; Maricar S. Prudente – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2025
While previous research has shown that claim-evidence-reasoning can effectively promote higher-order thinking skills in science education, more research should be done on using claim evidence-reasoning in elementary school settings. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of claim-evidence-reasoning in promoting the scientific reasoning…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Evidence, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Direct linkShiyu Xu; Michael J. Reiss; Wilton Lodge – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This study introduces a Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) instrument and empirically tests its reliability and validity. While existing instruments to measure scientific creativity generally focus on a single dimension, such as divergent thinking, the C-SCA incorporates scientific knowledge, motivation in scientific creativity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Process Skills, Creativity, Creative Thinking
Melinda Kirk; Russell Tytler; Peta J. White; Joseph Paul Ferguson; Jo Raphael – Research in Science Education, 2025
With the critical nature of socio-ecological challenges, the need to empower young people to generatively grapple with these science-related issues is crucial for developing their agentic citizenship. This paper reports on a primary science project that adopted a Socratic Seminar pedagogical strategy to enable student voice and collaborative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
David C. Owens – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Elementary students learn best when they make observations about perplexing natural phenomena, ask questions about what they observed, and pursue answers to their own questions through engagement in science practice. However, facilitating such learning experiences can be challenging for novice instructors. In this unit, pre-service elementary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Lunar Research, Astronomy, Elementary School Students
Melinda Kirk – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
In an era of socio-ecological challenges and uncertain times, it is imperative that student voice is supported to enable student transformative agency and desired positive change in their lives and community. Although international policy, the Australian Curriculum, School Strategic Plans, communities, teachers, and students often advocate for…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Kanok-on Khampui; Kwanyuen Leamsamrong; Woottipong Rarat; Rattikan Sarnkong – Higher Education Studies, 2025
The purposes of this study were: To examine the effects of low-cost mini science experiment kits on Thai 6th graders' science learning achievement; To investigate how these kits impact Thai 6th graders' Science process skills; To explore their influence on Thai 6th graders' scientific mindset The participants were 111 sixth-grade students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
